Possessing Nature by Paula Findlen
In 1500 few Europeans regarded nature as a subject worthy of inquiry. Yet fifty years later the first museums of natural history had appeared in Italy, dedicated to the marvels of nature. Italian patricians, their curiosity fuelled by new voyages of exploration and the humanist rediscovery of nature, created vast collections as a means of knowing the world and used this knowledge to their greater glory. Drawing on extensive archives of visitors' books, letters, travel journals, memoirs, and pleas for patronage, Paula Findlen reconstructs the lost social world of Renaissance and Baroque museums. She follows the new study of natural history as it moved out of the universities and into sixteenth- and seventeenth-century scientific societies, religious orders, and princely courts. Findlen argues convincingly that natural history as a discipline blurred the border between the ancients and the moderns, between collecting in order to recover ancient wisdom and the development of new textual and experimental scholarship. Her vivid account reveals how the scientific revolution grew from the constant mediation between the old forms of knowledge and the new.-
On the Postcolony
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The New Cultural History
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Jazz, Rock, and Rebels
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Beyond the Pale
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Beyond the Cultural Turn
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The Wedding of the Dead
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Speaking with Vampires
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Iconography of Power
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Private Lives and Public Affairs
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Wondrous in His Saints
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Passions of the Tongue
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The Emancipation of Writing
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The Emerging Female Citizen
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What Difference Does a Husband Make?
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Politics and Theater
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France and the Cult of the Sacred Heart
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The Family on Trial in Revolutionary France
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Hooliganism
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The Fabrication of Labor
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Territories of Grace
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Venice's Hidden Enemies
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Women Writing Opera
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Moral Communities
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Publishing and Cultural Politics in Revolutionary Paris, 1789-1810
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Producing Desire
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Cholera in Post-Revolutionary Paris
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An Ottoman Tragedy
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Popular Theater and Society in Tsarist Russia
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Crescendo of the Virtuoso
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The Women of Paris and Their French Revolution
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Fascist Spectacle
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Listening in Paris
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The New Biography
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The Frail Social Body
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Obstinate Hebrews
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The Collective and the Individual in Russia
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Crime, Cultural Conflict, and Justice in Rural Russia, 1856-1914
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The Struggle for the Breeches
Paula Findlen is Professor of History and Director of the Science, Technology and Society Program at Stanford University
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| ISBN 13 | 9780520073340 |
| ISBN 10 | 0520073347 |
| Title | Possessing Nature |
| Author | Paula Findlen |
| Series | Studies On The History Of Society And Culture |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | University of California Press |
| Year published | 1994-09-16 |
| Number of pages | 449 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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